As Islandstats.com reported last night, the Bermuda Football Association (BFA) has announced that due to fielding an ineligible player during the Friendship Final the Dandy Town Hornets “will forfeit the match and the Friendship Final is awarded to Robin Hood.”
This was decided following an investigation that started during the match at the National Sports Center on New Year’s Day by the Bermuda Football Association Officials, who took the lead in handling the matter.
Following the decision made by the Bermuda Football Association’s Competitions Committee the President of Robin Hood FC Derek Stapley released a statement.
Stapley said, "While we respect the BFA's decision we feel very sorry for Jomar and everyone at Dandy Town for the way things turned out - an unfortunate mistake means they not only forfeit the Friendship Cup but they miss out on the tremendous achievement of holding all five major trophies at the same time.
The game was played with a high level of intensity, competitiveness and sportsmanship with the players battling for every minute in an entertaining end to end match that produced 7 excellent goals. For the Robin Hood, and any other team in the same position, it is not the way you want to win a game or a trophy, especially given this was our premier team's first ever cup final. Kyle and the team did incredibly well reaching the final and we are proud of the way they played, especially for coming back from 3-0 down to tie the match, only to lose in the last five minutes to Damon Ming's superb solo effort.
We have a fairly young group of guys along with a couple of seasoned players and they are coming together tremendously as a team in our first season back in the top flight. Dandy Town are a great team with a superb coaching staff and we hope to have the opportunity of playing against them in another cup final in the future."